vigLink links appearing on discussions

[Argoon1981]

Hello only recently did i realized many in-text links are in reality direct links to ebay and have nothing to do with the supposed text they highlight, is this intentional or is this a virus?

 

[Munkus]

Same. It's annoying. Viglink is creating links out of random key words. For example, someone posted the text "it's a pain" and Viglink made pain a link to eBay.

Edit: and it just did it for "eBay"

Admin, any way to knock this crap off?

 

[SubCog]

Gross!

 

[wazman]

Testing ebay

Hmm. Didn't do it for me, but I'm using Chrome with Adblock.

 

[Argoon1981]

Testing ebay

Hmm. Didn't do it for me, but I'm using Chrome with Adblock.

I'm also using chrome with adblock and i'm having that.

 

[Munkus]

Testing ebay

Hmm. Didn't do it for me, but I'm using Chrome with Adblock.

I tweaked my Adblock so all better now. Thanks.

 

[Argoon1981]

I tweaked my Adblock so all better now. Thanks.

Could you share what you did to remove that? Please.

edit: forget me asking, it seems it was easy to remove that links with adblock.

 

[Munkus]

It's back again, even with adblock on.

 

[Munkus]

BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to disable itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

 

[wazman]

ebay

Testing again.

Still didn't do it...

Random words to test things.

 

[Seyiji]

eBay.

 

[Cyko]

BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to go eff itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

 

[Meteor_of_War]

BTW you can disable Viglinks in your current browser by going to https://www.viglink.com/opt-out and opting out of it. Doing so sets a cookie to tell Viglink to disable itself, so if you clear your cache & cookies you'll need to enable the cookie again.

Thank you!!

 

[KAC]

How do you do this crap on phone. I am getting a ton of keyword ads in Safari.

 

[SubCog]

Can we please change viglinks to vaglinks? I don't think anyone here will complain.

 

[Meteor_of_War]

Is anyone else having issues with these Viglink things again? I have it disabled on this page but am still getting the annoying Viglinks in posts. What happened?

[EDIT] Oh so it should be set to ENABLED? Links seem to be gone now when set to enabled on that page. I must have cleared my cookies and when I went to fix Viglinks I set it to disabled when it should be enabled. Confusing to my feeble mind apparently.

[EDIT2] Nope, the links are back. They keep reverting, and I have to keep going back and re-enabling on the opt out page. So something may be wrong with the cookie saving on my browser.

[EDIT3] OK looks like the Adblock add-on in Firefox was updated and maybe I needed to adjust settings. Enabling "Block additional tracking" and disabling "Allow Acceptable Ads" seems to have fixed the Viglinks coming back.